Produce Manager

Weis Markets, Inc.; Elizabethtown (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Weis Markets, Inc. is seeking an experienced Produce Department Supervisor in Elizabethtown, PA. The role oversees staffing, merchandising, and customer relations across the department, ensuring high standards and profitability.

The ideal candidate has strong leadership and a track record of managing retail or supermarket teams, with a focus on freshness, accuracy, and customer service.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; college degree desirable.
• Minimum 3 years' management experience in retail/ supermarket/restaurant environment.

Responsibilities

• Promotes excellent customer relations with a polite and professional demeanor.
• Takes orders and creates finished products with attention to size and appearance.
• Schedules associates, trains, rewards, reviews performance, and delegates tasks.
• Develops localized merchandising plans and displays to drive sales.
• Maintains records of inventories and department performance per company guidelines.
• Oversees receiving, labeling, stock rotation, and product freshness.
• Controls department expenses and labor costs while reducing losses.
• Keeps department stocked and appealing; handles special requests for baskets.

Skills

Customer relations

Staff supervision

Training & development

Merchandising

Education

High school diploma

Associate or bachelor’s degree in business/food service

Tools

LMS

POS system

Job description

Looking for a company that treats associates with respect, understanding, and appreciation? Looking for a company that is passionate about teamwork and the growth of it's associates and communities? That's WEIS!

Location Address

1629 South Market Street

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The associate is responsible for the functions below, in addition to other duties as assigned:

• Promotes excellent customer relations by instilling positive customer focused behavior with associates. Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions and helps resolve customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner. Focuses on continuous improvement in all areas of the department and makes changes to ensure progress.


• Takes customer orders over the phone or in person at the store with a pleasant and positive attitude. Determines what the customer is looking for in terms of size and appearance. Creates the finished product in a timely fashion.


• Schedules all produce Associates, oversees and participates in training, rewards and recognizes performance and delegates work assignments to effectively utilize talents and abilities while maximizing profits for the department. Participates in associate annual performance reviews and new hire interviews. Utilizes the Learning Management System (LMS) current and new associates.


• Develops and implements localized merchandising plans, sets up and creates displays for new or seasonal items to drive sales. Develops and maintains communications with other departments and store manager in order to devise cross merchandising plans, to meet financial objectives. Monitors competitor activity concerning merchandising, pricing, quality, and comparison signage.


• Prepares, maintains and tracks records concerning inventories to calculate gross monthly profits according to company guidelines. Maintains associate department records and reports on all important matters including associate performance and discipline, sales, future plans, etc.


• Checks and verifies all department deliveries and invoices to ensure accurate billing. May help unload merchandise and transport to sales floor or storage area. Enforces and follows department practices regarding receiving, dating and restocking to ensure product rotation. Monitors product quality and freshness. Breaks down deliveries.


• Controls department expenses by improving operations and efficiencies, controls labor costs and reduces losses due to damages, spoiled product and shrink. Ensures associates correctly follow company recipes for prepared products. Maintains freshness by properly removing and recording out of code products. Completes required product logs.


• Keeps produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands. Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions, handles special requests such as filling orders for fruit baskets and resolves customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.


• Unpacks cartons and crates of merchandise, cleans and trims produce, stocks area with new merchandise. Ensures merchandise is in saleable condition which requires rotating stock to ensure freshness. Ensures that product has been properly presented with correct signage. Maintains salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable as needed Assists in building attractive displays. Accurately completes necessary product logs. Handles spoiled and damaged product, new items and discontinued items accordingly to company policy.


• Maintains backroom and receiving area security and organization by promoting 5S procedures responsible for general sanitation in the department. Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements. Disposes of trash properly.


• May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if properly trained. Training provided.


• Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and superiors. Responsible to continuously improve job performance.


• Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE). Including but not limited to cut resistant gloves, safety cutters, company sponsored footwear, etc.


• May also be called upon to assist in other departments.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervises all Associates in the department. May also oversee the Floral department in select stores. Specific number of Associates depend upon store volume.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, the Associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required. Associate or bachelor's degree in business related or food service-related field desirable. Minimum (3) years' experience in management in retail/restaurant/supermarket environment.

Weis Markets is an Equal Opportunity Employer:Weis Markets is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, familial status, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with a disability may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the ways things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Weis Markets.